Docker

Anyport vs Coolify

Coolify

Docker

Docker Engine, installed by Coolify. Swarm for multiple nodes, now documented as deprecated.

Runtime

Anyport

Kubernetes

Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster.

If your servers run Docker and you are happy there, use Coolify. It is free under Apache-2.0, it has the largest community in this category by a wide margin, and nothing here is an argument that it is worse at what it does.

The two products separate on one fact: Coolify's documented orchestration is Docker, and Anyport only runs on Kubernetes. Choosing between them is mostly choosing which of those two you want to operate.

01Common ground

What both of them do

This much both products do, so the table below is only about where they differ.

Push to a Git branch and it builds and rolls out.
Automatic HTTPS on your own domains.
Databases and one-click services next to your applications.
Logs, environment variables and a terminal into a container.
Your workloads run on hardware you own and pay for directly.

02The differences

Where they differ

Each row asks one question and sets the two answers across a seam. The highlighted row is the one this comparison turns on.

Coolify	Question	Anyport
Coolify A self-hosted PaaS You install it on your own Linux servers.	What it is	Anyport A hosted control plane For Kubernetes clusters you already run.
Coolify Docker Docker Engine, installed by Coolify. Swarm for multiple nodes, now documented as deprecated.	Runtime	Anyport Kubernetes Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster.
Coolify On your server You install, upgrade and back it up.	Where the control plane runs	Anyport Hosted by us There is nothing for you to install, upgrade or back up.
Coolify It connects in, over SSH With SSH key authentication, as root or a sudo-capable user.	How it reaches your infrastructure	Anyport Your cluster connects out The agent dials us and holds one connection open.
Coolify An SSH endpoint it can reach By IP address or hostname, or through a Cloudflare Tunnel.	What your infrastructure must expose	Anyport Nothing No inbound port, no public IP, no reachable API server.
Coolify You do	Who provisions the machines	Anyport You do, or Anyport does Attach machines you own, or have Anyport Cloud run the cluster and bill what it uses.
Coolify Free to self-host, or $5/mo hosted Apache-2.0. Coolify Cloud is $5 a month for two servers, then $3 a month per server. Checked 2 October 2026.	Price	Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 3 clusters free, then $2 a month each, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered.
Coolify None claimed No certification appears in the documentation.	Compliance	Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead.

03The decision

Which one to choose

Each list is written to be true. If the first one describes you, the better product is theirs.

Choose Coolify if

Your workloads are Docker or Docker Compose and you have no reason to introduce Kubernetes.
You want the control plane on your own machine, under a licence you can read, with no vendor in the path at all.
You value a large community, a long history of releases and 280 or so one-click services.
You are one person or a small team on one or two VPSes. Kubernetes is overhead you would be paying for nothing.

Choose Anyport if

You already run Kubernetes and want deploys, rollbacks, HTTPS, logs and metrics on top of it rather than a second orchestrator beside it.
Some of your clusters sit behind NAT, on an edge site, or in a customer's data centre where nothing can dial in.
You have several clusters and want one console, one set of roles and one audit log across all of them.
You want managed Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse or Qdrant running as Kubernetes operators on your own hardware.
You have no server yet. Anyport Cloud runs the cluster for you, and servers you attach later join the same console.

04In their words

What Coolify is

Taken from their own documentation and pricing.

Coolify installs on a Linux server and deploys containers to it. It needs a server reachable over SSH as root or a sudo-capable user, installs Docker Engine itself, and manages every server it connects to over SSH with key authentication.

Multi-server work is Docker Swarm, which Coolify's own scalability page now marks deprecated, to be continued only as a temporary legacy setup. Kubernetes does not appear in the documentation as a supported orchestrator.

It is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host. Coolify Cloud hosts the control plane for $5 a month with two servers included and $3 a month for each server after that. It carried roughly 60,000 GitHub stars when we last measured on 22 August 2026.

05Questions

Questions people ask

Does Coolify support Kubernetes?

Not according to its documentation. Coolify's documented orchestration is Docker Engine, with Docker Swarm marked deprecated on its own scalability page. Kubernetes is not listed as a supported orchestrator.

Can I use Coolify and Anyport together?

Yes, and plenty of setups reasonably would. They orchestrate different things. Coolify runs your Docker hosts and Anyport runs your Kubernetes clusters, and neither needs to know about the other.

What does Anyport require of a cluster?

A Kubernetes cluster you can run one command against, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s first. No inbound port, no public IP, no load balancer that can obtain one, and no kubeconfig handed to us. The agent opens a connection outward and holds it open. With no cluster at all, Anyport Cloud runs one for you on Pro, billed for what your apps use.

What does Anyport cost?

Three clusters are free with every feature and unlimited members, apps and projects. Pro is $5 a month with $5 of credit back each month; clusters past the free three are $2 a month each, and clusters on Anyport Cloud $5, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered because it is not ours, and the one counted resource there is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own: 10 GB a month free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.02 per GB. A cluster on Anyport Cloud runs on our hardware instead and is billed for what your apps use, at $12 per vCPU and $6 per GiB of memory a month, from credit.

Is Anyport audited or certified?

Not yet. In place of a report, the security page documents what the agent runs with inside your cluster, what crosses the boundary and how secrets are stored, so a reviewer can evaluate the controls directly. Two of them hold regardless of certification: we never receive credentials for your Kubernetes API, and your workloads keep serving whether or not our control plane is reachable.

Start with three free.

Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. Three clusters are free with every feature, and the pricing page works out what yours would cost.

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